Just think back into the past happenings in your life. As you breeze through the events, you will find that each event will be somehow connected to another random-seeming event that happens sometime later. The previous event would be a precursor and cause to the next event, and the next... If the 'cause event' does not occur or if we change it, the 'result event' which occurred would never happen. A single event may thus change an entire sequence of happenings. A single decision taken by a single human being may thus alter the fate of another event happening anywhere in the universe, acting as a trigger. I thought of all this when I watched 'Final Destination' movie and realised that most things that happen to us now are the results of an event that would have happened in the past, a day before, a month or years ago. I don't know why but I feel it's like a card touched makes all other cards to fall.
“ What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” -- Jack Kerouac (American Poet and Novelist) From what I have seen and admired in humans, they are eternal optimists. Goodbyes seem to break us, but we straighten up and walk, holding our head high, blinking away our tears. And as regards the specks of people dispersing, when something moves away, something else comes near. Guess that's how laws of nature move. If a time comes when nothing else comes near, it's when we will become really alone; alone to live and love life without any reason, taking the next step forward.
hmm ... u r rediscovering a fascinating but well-studied phenomena called The Butterfly Effect - a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings at some distant place & time in the past - its about chaotic behavior of complex systems!
ReplyDeleteAll real world systems, including that of human social system, is complex & chaotic ... welcome to the fascinating world of Chaos & Fractals !
... the natural evolution of thought of a mind fascinated by the cause-effect of life events would be to fantasize going back in time and change events that could change one's current life for the better ??
ReplyDelete... this universal fantasy is explored with all its implication in this master piece., "The End of Eternity", by the celebrated sci-fi writer, a scientist himself, Isaac Asimov -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity